Re: (SNES) Hoping for clear skies

[Albireo54@aol.com]

In a message dated 6/27/2002 9:22:33 PM Eastern Standard Time, 
colemans@riconnect.com writes:


> ERnie
> 
> We'll be alive weather permitting. Moonrise is about 11:30.
> 
> Les

Hi Everyone,

Greetings from (un)sunny Florida!

I hope that you all get some decent observing in tomorrow night - it seems 
like it's been a really slow time up there for FDO what with poor weather and 
staffing issues.

I just came in after getting my best ever look at the Hubble Space Telescope. 
It passed 85 degrees high from west to east, at about magnitude 1.5, but 
briefly outshone Arcturus - as a bright section on the scope "flared". From 
Charlestown the HST would have been only 12 degrees up and a dim magnitude 
3.9, according to Heavens Above.

The summer monsoon arrived here in Florida on the night of 6/14 - when we 
received 5 inches of rain in 7 hours. Since then it has rained hard at least 
once each and every day, as thunderstorms crop up with little or no warning. 
Our area has received something like 20 inches of rain in that 13 day span! 
Needless to say, no one is talking drought down here any more!

With all the humidity and rain, the observing chances have been few and far 
between. One plus is that the cloud cover has kept daytime temps in the mid 
to upper 80's, rather than the more typical 90's. On the other hand, in the 
month I've been here the lowest temperature I've seen is 71 degrees!

I hope that with a little help from Mother Nature you can get back up to full 
speed at FDO really soon, and I look forward to reading the logs once more. 
Good luck to all - I'll let you know how things are doing down here as well.

Missing you all,
Doug
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